
SHELF LIFE—Music, Grace & Grit: Black Voices in Verse
Poets Ashley M. Jones (Reparations Now!), Khalisa Rae (Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat), and Crystal Wilkinson (Perfect Black) confront their complex Southern inheritance, mourning the horrors of racism while …

SHELF LIFE: Any Murders in the Building?
Step into cozy-reading for the winter with Maggie Blackburn (Once Upon a Seaside Murder), Amita Murray (Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death), and RV Raman (A Will to Kill). …

SHELF LIFE—Beloved Beasts: Michelle Nijhuis in Conversation with Oliver Milman
Michelle Nijhuis discussed Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, her vibrant history of the modern conservation movement seen through the lives and ideas of the people …

Undoing Drugs: A Conversation with Maia Szalavitz
Maia Szalavitz, author of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, discussed the story of harm reduction and its potential to tame the opioid …

Literary Fiction: A Discussion with Yvonne Battle-Felton, Keisha Bush & Melanie S. Hatter
Yvonne Battle-Felton (Remembered), Keisha Bush (No Heaven for Good Boys), and Melanie S. Hatter (Malawi’s Sisters) discuss their acclaimed literary fiction, exploring themes of family, memory, and the affirming power …

Coming Out & Coming of Age in Graphic Novels: The Magic Fish with Trung Le Nguyen
Trung Le Nguyen discusses The Magic Fish, his YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together, in conversation with his editor, …

Sizzling Summer Suspense! With Alyssa Cole and Dorothy Koomson
Alyssa Cole, author of When No One is Watching, and Dorothy Koomson, author of I Know What You’ve Done, discuss digging into neighborhood secrets, disappearances, and conspiracies in their unputdownable …

The World in the Whale with Rebecca Giggs and Nick Pyenson
Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms: The World in the Whale, discusses the role of whales in our global culture and changing environment, in conversation with Nick Pyenson, author of Spying …